Beginning their third and final decade as star and director, Toshiro Mifune once again headlines a stunning morality tale for Akira Kurosawa, utilizing elements of “Hamlet” to tell the story of a young executive who marries the boss’s daughter under an assumed name to get revenge for the murder of his father, a company lackey forced to commit suicide to cover up corruption. Told in three distinct acts, beginning with a masterfully elaborate wedding sequence, and ending rather abruptly and boldly at a bombed out munitions factory where all of the Shakespearian tragedy comes to a head, Kurosawa opens up his tale of deception, corruption, and murder to include Mifune’s Ophelia-like bride (Kyoko Kagawa), Claudius-like boss (Masayuki Mori), Laertes-like best friend (Takeshi Kato), and a host of corporate stooges (Takashi Shimura and Ko Nishimura best of all) haunted by the ghosts of the past in Mifune’s dense revenge ploy. This is one of Kurosawa’s longest non-action films (Mifune doesn’t speak for 30-minutes), and like “The Idiot” and “The Lower Depths” before, he takes his time meting out characterizations while plot points only slowly emerge, but the criticism of post-war Japanese business is sharp and stinging, capturing some deplorable business with a crisp, expert wide-screen focus.